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Output 1: Indicators for a responsible and ethical
performance of the water sector; Benchmarking and Bench
Learning of Water Best Ethical Practices:
This would be as a result of launching a program for
benchmarking of water best ethical practices on: (i)
institutional, (ii) expert, or (iii) project levels. That
would be the basis for bench-learning in workshops through
dissemination and exchange of experiences in the way of
knowledge transfer, through:
· Establish a
procedure for benchmarking that includes: (i) identification
of problem areas; (ii) identification of
organizations that are leaders in
these areas;
(iii) study their best
practices;
(iv)
implement the best practices;
(v)
Repeat
considering Benchmarking as an ongoing process,
and best practices can always be made better.
· Promote and
disseminate best practices and success stories in the Arab
region.
Output 2: Code of Conduct for Water Use Ethics:
Initiating a code of conduct that includes guidelines for
ethics of water use, management and decision making,
negotiations and dispute settlement. This output will have
to recognize the varied areas of the region, through:
· Initiating a
concept paper that sets out an agenda and discusses possible
Code themes.
· A thorough study
of the themes with written research papers, as a basis for
discussion of a working group.
· Composing an
expert working group for deliberating the contents and
finalizing the guidelines.
· Preparing a
draft version and inviting workgroup comments on the
research papers
· Launching a
workshop with the participation of major stakeholders to
exchange their perspectives with the expert group.
· Finalizing the
code in view of the results of the workshop.
· Publicizing the
Code.
Output 3: Publications for raising awareness:
Promoting awareness among specific target audiences
(universities, women, students, decision makers, farmers,
industrialists, and other stakeholders) in the agricultural
and energy fields, as well as tourism, municipal and local
government fields, through:
· Publish and
disseminate bulletins and newsletters that publicize
activities of the network; and monitor its work
· Concentrate
public education through a promotional plan in cooperation
with NGOs and political parties.
· A special
program for educating youth and students in schools and
libraries, as well as colleges and universities in
cooperation with NGOs and the government.
Output 4: Establishing a webpage as a forum
Networking
through the use of Information Technology; and through
developing a webpage to help achieving regional integration
and creating a database for conveying knowledge and
expertise among Arab focal points, through:.
Output 5: Promoting skills in negotiation and conflict
resolution:
Enhancing water negotiation skills and ethical practice
in conflict management and resolution, through:
· A program of
lectures.
· Analyzing water
conflicts.
· Diplomacy and
the strategies of negotiation in the international and
regional context.
· Tools of
dialogue for facilitating negotiations and concluding
agreements.
· Monitoring
future water challenges in the region, and possible
conflicts.
· Involving
stakeholders in small groups for representing the region’s
countries in a role play, and carrying out simulation
exercises.
Output 6: Linking with existing Arab networks, NGOs, water
professionals and institutions:
Incorporating water ethics concepts, principles and
modalities for actualization into the strategies of the
existing Arab and Nile basin water networks through:
· Linking
with Arab Water Council.
· Linking
with FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental
and Network Data Sets) Project for the river Nile which was
recently launched.
· Linking
with UNESCO Cairo office “Groundwater Protection
Network” in the Arab Region.
· Linking
with UNESCO Cairo office "Wadi Hydrology" programme.
· Linking
with UNESCO Cairo office HELP (Hydrology for the
Environment, Life and Policy) programme.
Output 7: Ethics education, training, and capacity building:
Incorporating ethics in the education curriculum, as well
as introducing hands on tools for enhancing skills and
capacity building, through: Initiating a program for
incorporating water ethical principles in schools
curriculum; Introducing a module on water ethics as a
postgraduate study in universities; promoting research on
water ethics among postgraduate students; initiating a
research competition among young professionals and water
engineers, through in depth research; and linking with
international education programs on water ethics within
RENEW nodes and others.
Output 8: International & Regional cooperation:
Promoting regional and international cooperation, in
cooperation with the UNESCO office in Cairo, through:
establishing links with other RENEW nodes, inviting for
workshops of RENEW nodes for exchanging knowledge and
experiences among them, hosting international lecturers and
experts, Working in tandem with and parallel to UNESCO
International Hydrological Program (IHP) and COMEST
proposals and its activities. ACSAD, CEDARE, ALECSO, ISESCO,
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